Fractional Chief People Officer | Putting the human back in HR for 24 years | Marine Corps Veteran | Professor | Speaker | Star Wars aficionado |
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A restaurant owner posted a video explaining why he prefers hiring men over women. That video is now a lawsuit waiting to happen.
The scary part is how many small businesses think the same way and just never say it out loud.
Here's how to protect yours: baezco.com/baezco-blog/2026/…
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Can your employees tell you they need a mental health day, or do they feel like they have to lie to get one? That answer tells you everything about your culture. baezco.com/baezco-blog/2026/…
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Burnout is often treated as a time-management problem. More often, it stems from organizational failures. f-st.co/LVbj6n6
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A restaurant owner fired a pregnant manager for asking for two extra weeks of maternity leave.
The EEOC filed suit. This law starts at 15 employees. Not 50. Here's what you need to know before it's your name in a press release: baezco.com/baezco-blog/2026/…
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"We have spent years building a workplace culture obsessed with high performance while neglecting the internal architecture that makes high performance sustainable." f-st.co/tFP54dU
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How employees who got replaced by AI are acting now that the company is trying to hire them back. #hr #hrhumor youtube.com/shorts/LfaGz5RtF…
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A homeless dog walked into a veterinary clinic and showed its wounded paw, hoping someone would help, and they did 🐶❤️
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We don't have to be jerks to our employees to be successful
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This is a real thing. When I was benchmarking recruiting processes for a client, I was acting as a candidate for another company. I spent a minute and a half with who I thought was a human recruiter, which later on I found out was a bot.
Jun 2
Growing numbers of job applicants are no longer facing a human person in their first interview. Instead, candidates are confronted with AI chatbots designed to screen applications and assess answers before involving a human recruiter.
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Growing numbers of job applicants are no longer facing a human person in their first interview. Instead, candidates are confronted with AI chatbots designed to screen applications and assess answers before involving a human recruiter.
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A company gave employees unlimited AI access. No guardrails. No limits. $500 million bill. One month.
That same "set it and forget it" mindset is happening in HR software right now — and the consequences aren't just financial.
84% of employers say AI is their #1 compliance risk this year.
Are you one of them? baezco.com/baezco-blog/2026/…
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May 29
An AI consultant told Axios their client didn't set limits on employees' Claude license usage, resulting in a $500 million bill. f-st.co/34sPg3s
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For all sorts of reasons, Gen-Z is woefully unprepared for dealing with the workplace. Here’s why—and what companies need to do to fix it.
🔗: on.wsj.com/4e90foB
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Having a great boss while doing work you don’t love is still better than loving your job and reporting to a terrible boss. Leadership impacts your day more than the work itself.
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May 29
Florida has no pay transparency law.
But if you post jobs remotely on national job boards, other states' laws may already apply to you.
California. New York. Colorado. They don't care where your company is based.
Here's what to check before your next job posting. Link in bio.
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May 27
Leaders who only see “the happy path results” of AI are “uniquely prone to AI psychosis,” Aaron Levie wrote in a post on X. f-st.co/UsCNgRl
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